AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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AMD Radeon R7 A260 NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 A260 +1132%

0.752 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

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GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

May 2007

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

23.52 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

G84

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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